A Blog designed for discussion of topics related to, but not limited to, Circus, Zoos, Animal Training, and Animal Welfare/Husbandry. Sometimes opening up the dialog is the best starting point of all. And if for nothing else when people who agree and don't agree, get together and start discussing it, it will open up a lot of peoples minds. Debate and discussion even amongst themselves opens a window where there wasn't one before.
Monday, February 27, 2012
For Radar--Hang Seats
Prof. George Keller used a few hang seats. This hang seat above, and a couple of example's in below threads are braced against the arena, eliminating the need for front legs, but you have to have a barred arena to brace against. I mentioned the seat's tipping off the arena. Back in the day of "chase them along the fence(yeah, yeah I know only the European's chased them, the Americans called them to them) hang seats braced against the arena allowed the animals to run under them, instead of colliding with the legs and upsetting the seat, or torquing it sideways. If you study old Mable Stark photo's she was about the most "European" method American trainer there ever was.
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